Our group rides 3 days a week, 20 miles every Thursday. 10 miles out stop for a few minutes then 10 miles back to lunch and our meeting. It's the shortest and slowest ride of the week. Today was crazy. I'm one of the young ones at 61 but we get all ages. It started out slow as usual then I picked it up to about 17 mph into a 8 mph head wind. I waited for the fast guys to go which is normally 20 into the wind. I followed but today it was more like 22+. We sprint the last mile to the turnaround point. I usually lead out at about 30 but the wind slowed me to 25. We waited for the slow pokes but they were real late they had a paceline wheel touch and 2 people went down. They wern't hurt bad just some road rash. So we leave with a nice tail wind and are taking it slow at about 20 when one guy goes on a solo breakaway. We let him get about a half mile ahead and take it to 25. We go 2 or 3 miles and aren't closing so we speed up. I have GPS and we hit 28.4 before we catch him. I can barely hang with the lead guy who is 67 or 68 years old. We see police and fire trucks ahead, looks like a wreak. When we get there it's 2 bikes under a pickup truck. The bikes look familiar, it's 2 of the slow ladies from our group. They seem OK but the police make us get out of the way. 4 people down in 2 crashes in 20 miles very exciting for a group of mostly 65+ bicyclists.